Kenlee and Jordyn both picked out their own costumes this year. They of course both wanted to be a princess, luckily they could agree to be different princesses. Kenlee picked Ariel and Jordyn was Cinderella. To kick off our holiday, we were able to attend our ward's Fall Festival which meant that both girls got to dress up in their Halloween costumes. Blake had to close that night and Brock was closing as well so Tiffany agreed to come with me and help me with the girlies. We had a great dinner of soup and bread sticks then wandered around to the different booths that the young men and young women had set up for the primary kids. Kenlee and Jordyn both enjoyed themselves and participated (with a little pushing) in most of the booths.
Kenlee also had a lot of fun activities at preschool, one of them being able to go to the pumpkin walk with her class. Jordyn and I were able to go with her and help with the kids. The pumpkin displays were of course amazing and we had a great time walking through. I was hoping to be able to go back with Blake and take pictures but life got too busy and we unfortunately never got the opportunity.
The day before Halloween Kenlee was allowed to dress up in her costume for preschool and they did some Halloween themed activities that day. She loved telling me about all her friends costumes and all the fun they had had together.
Kenlee dressed up for her preschool party!
Carving pumpkins this year was very entertaining. Kenlee was very enthusiastic about helping with her pumpkin and coming up with ideas as to what to carve. It was very hard to convince her to do something simple since Mom was the only one who was going to be able to help her this year. Daddy is much better at doing detailed pumpkins but he had class that night. She finally agreed to do a cute little kitty sitting on a pumpkin that was in a pattern book my mom had. Jordyn thought at first that the idea of sticking her hand in those gross pumpkin guts was stupid but eventually really wanted to help and dug in with Karlee. Since I was helping both girls with their pumpkins and Jordyn isn't picky yet I did a traditional jack-o-lantern face for hers.
My mom's jack-be-littles went crazy this year and we were trying to send them with anyone that would take some. The girls ended up with at least 14 if not more so as a craft the morning of Halloween we all painted the little pumpkins. Blake didn't have to work til 4 so he was even there and being crafty. We all had such a great time and we will definitely be doing it again next year. Jordyn even ended up painting her tummy like a pumpkin, she thought it was weird and kept trying to wipe it off with her hands which were also covered in paint so of course things only got messier. It was hilarious to watch.
After we got everyone cleaned up from the pumpkins we had a quick lunch and put the girls down for a nap. While they rested Blake and I got our costumes on so that we would be ready to help the girls out when they woke up. We only had a short time line for being able to hit the Lee's pumpkin walk with Blake before his shift actually started, we really wanted him to be able to calmly walk through with us this year. Blake and I were really indecisive about what we should dress up like and didn't pick anything til a day or two before Halloween. Blake finally settled on dressing like an 80's rock star and I opted to be a mad scientist, very simple but one of my more fun costumes.
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